Great Minds

Clare stopped by yesterday on her way to a nail appointment. Naturally, we talked baseball at a social distance. “I just wish he could make more plays,” offered my daughter referring to rookie sensation Luis Robert. “He could’ve caught that ball he took off the wall,” said the girl who spent all of high school playing second base, only to be thrown into the outfield in college. “And that ball he dived for.” She was talking about two plays from Thursday, and we might be the only two Sox fans who can remember them in the wake of the 458-foot homerun Robert hit in the seventh inning against Royals’ reliever Jake Newberry. “Oh my God,” said an admiring Adam Engel caught on camera as he watched what Robert had wrought. Now, if Robert can just make some of the plays Engel has in the field, then we can start talking about all-time greats, fingers-crossed.